Family name origins & meanings
- French : topographic name for someone who lived on a piece of land overgrown with bushes or scrub, Old French barthe (a word probably of Gaulish origin).
- German : metonymic occupational name for someone who made (battle)axes, from Middle High German barte, Middle Low German barde ‘axe’.
- A Barthe or Barte from the Languedoc region of France is recorded in Varennes, Quebec, in 1707, together with the secondary surnames Belleville and Larivière.